NEW BRAUNFELS — Facing defense assertions that defective indictments were used in June to bring criminal charges against two former Comal Independent School District administrators, prosecutors Thursday dropped several criminal allegations against them

Marc Walker and Thomas Bloxham still face charges of theft by a public servant, money laundering and misapplication of fiduciary property, which allegedly occurred between 2010 and 2012 when Walker was the school district’s superintendent and Bloxham was assistant superintendent of support services.

Defense attorneys welcomed the state’s decision to strike 10 paragraphs from the similar six-page indictments, which had accused the pair of offering a gift to a public servant, coercion of a public servant, improper influence, abuse of official capacity and misapplication of fiduciary property worth between $20,000 and $100,000.

All the stricken paragraphs were contained in a money laundering section of the indictment that still includes paragraphs alleging bribery, commercial bribery and misapplication of fiduciary property.

Defense attorneys David Frank, representing Walker, and Scot Courtney, Bloxham’s lawyer, said they would seek a court order quashing the indictments entirely on the grounds that they provided too few details to allow them to prepare a defense.

“We ask the state to plead with more specificity,” Frank told state District Judge Bruce Boyer.

Assistant District Attorney Daniel Palmitier said a more detailed synopsis of the remaining allegations in the indictment was not required by law, but he offered additional details through an exhibit of documents outlining the five claims that he said formed the basis of the state’s case.

Palmitier said the school district was billed $50,100 for work done on Bloxham’s home here by a construction company hired by the district for work connected to its

$205 million bond approved in 2008.

The same company provided gifts, as well as hunting and fishing trips, to the defendants, Palmitier said.

He also said the district skirted proper bidding procedures and paid a Round Rock company $39,000 for heating and air-conditioning work on a campus building that was actually worth about $12,000.

A search warrant affidavit in court records says the same company installed a heating/air-conditioning unit at a residence Bloxham was building on Rolling Oaks Drive, although no checks to the company were written from Bloxham’s construction loan.

Palmitier also told the judge that Bloxham had paid the district $1,250 for a metal building that once stood on the Smithson Valley High School campus, then had it erected on his property. Also, he said, a concrete vendor billed the district $1,083 for work done at Bloxham’s home.

Courtney disputed Palmitier’s assertion that the defense had previously received the records in the exhibit.

Courtney said he wants access not only to whatever his client told the grand jury but also the testimony of all other witnesses and disclosure of any immunity or leniency pledges given by prosecutors to other witnesses.

The defendants were forced by court order to testify before grand jurors under a grant of immunity after they’d each asserted their right against self-incrimination, Courtney said. He wants all the normally secret grand jury testimony revealed.

Attorney Kyle Lowe, who also represented Walker at the hearing, said he’d already successfully petitioned for copies of his client’s grand jury testimony and was awaiting its delivery.

Boyer asked for briefs from both sides on the issue of releasing the grand jury testimony of nondefendants and said he would review the motions on quashing the indictment before the next hearing in February.

Both defendants declined comment Thursday.

Walker, an Austin resident, joined Comal ISD as superintendent in August 2005 and retired in January 2013, district spokesman Steve Stanford said.

Bloxham worked there for seven years, beginning in November 2005, before taking a job in Hutto ISD as its executive director of facilities and operations.

The district asked the Comal County Sheriff’s Department to investigate after an internal inquiry into the possible misappropriation of district funds found evidence supporting allegations first raised in late 2012, Stanford said.